A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

Лот 38
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£ 70 000
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Лот 38 | A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

BY BENJAMIN LEWIS VULLIAMY, LONDON, CIRCA 1805-10

Each with dished circular drip-pan and dart-moulded everted rim, the scrolled acanthus-cast nozzle above a rosette and gadrooned collar and acanthus-cast bulbous baluster stem with stiff-leaf spreading domed socle, the circular drum pedestal hatched with alternating Hamilton-cinquefoils and Beckford Latimer crosses flanked by chimerical winged-lions, on a domed spreading acanthus and palm-leaf cast circular base

14 ¼ in. (36 cm.) high; 5¾in. (14.5 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Commissioned by William Beckford for Fonthill Abbey.

John Farquhar.

Sold Phillips, Fonthill Abbey sale, 17 October 1823 (twenty-ninth day's sale), lot 1167 for £7.7s. or lot 1168 for £7.

Beatrice Lagrave Maltby, New York; by whose estate sold, Christie's, New York, 16 April 1994, lot 15 (as a set of four).



Literature

M. Snodin and M. Baxter, 'William Beckford's Silver', Burlington, November and December 1980, pp. 735-748 and pp. 820-834.

H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. 1, p. 324, fig. 5.I.3.

C. Wainwright, 'Fonthill Abbey', The Romantic Interior, London, 1989, fig. 114.



Exhibited

New York and London, William Beckford, 1760-1844, An Eye for the Magnificent, 2001, no. 82.
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